The Gatekeepers of Free Speech

We have ceded our free speech to private businesses that are controlled by Leftists. They are the gatekeepers. In the name of “free speech” we are allowing an elite few to destroy free speech, and more generally America.

You can be fired for stating politically incorrect ideas that are uttered outside of work, or even just expressing the support for people to say such utterances.

America used to be about pluralism and tolerance. Yes there was a common bond that embodied American Exceptionalism, but it wasn’t regimented or limited, but liberating. We would put up with idiocy, and not go out of our way to punish people for wrongthink if it didn’t effect us. This was necessary when you have people who disagree but want to live as civilized human beings.

Toleration means you tolerate. It means you tolerate what you find utterly appalling.

Now, a select few rich Leftists can control and shape debate (via the Gramscian march). Truth can be memoryholed to be replaced by “the truth”, and minority opinions can be made to seem like an overwhelming majority.

The internet, once, was a way of side-stepping the gatekeepers of speech in the press, radio, or television. Now, with the concession of communication handed over to a far Left elite, the gatekeepers have arisen yet again.

6 Responses to The Gatekeepers of Free Speech

I am recalling a world when men told women what to think and how to behave and what was permissible and what was forbidden. During this time men created strip clubs, bordellos, saloons, prohibited liquor then made it legal, included an ominous clause in wedding vows that read: “Til death do you part”, which consequently lead to a lot of homicides inside marriages which proved most detrimental for the wife who wanted out of a seriously bad marriage. Whatever you are suggesting about left-winged politics really has nothing to do with either extreme. It just makes good sense to let people live a little and own their own thoughts, like what you just did in sharing this article. Stop living in the past. Change is a constant. Take the hint.